Line #50 Characters/LittleCherry


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2	!!The Kids
3	[[folder:Little Cherry (Xiao Ying Tao 小樱桃)]]
4	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoyingtao_tv.png]]
5	->'''Voiced by:''' Deng Yuting (TV series)
6	A nine or ten-year-old curious and mischievous girl.
7	* AsleepInClass: She is very prone to falling asleep during classtime, which has been the subject of countless gags.
8	* BornUnlucky: Things have often turned unfortunate to her, including nearly burning the kitchen down, growing cabbages instead of desert roses, or her mother catching her intricate scheme to earn extra allowance.
9	* CheerfulChild: Aside for stressful things like homework and her mother, she frequently holds her optimism passionately.
10	* ChildishToothGap: In some older comic strips, she has a short left tooth in her top ToothStrip.
11	* TheDitz: Sometimes demonstrates irrational choices. For example, while attempting to nurse her classmates in season 2 episode 2, she [[NurseWithGoodIntentions gives eyedrops for Lazy's stomach ache and leg splints for Yingnan's dizziness]].
12	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She has a distinct appearance in her oldest designs where she is adorned with a flower headband and a "noodle" hairstyle (despite that she dislikes noodles at least in that period). Her hair was usually brown instead of black, to sum it up.
13	* EyesAlwaysShut: Her eyes are often closed in countless illustrations (including cover art) or about half the time in some comics.
14	* {{Fangirl}}:
15	** She is a huge fangirl of the singer Ah Lun (or Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse in the comic strip); she has a poster of Ah Lun/Tse under a toilet lid.
16	** She also admires Xiao Chou the rockstar in a 2010 comic, to the point it freaks out her mother and a history class lecturer. [[spoiler:Once Xiao Chou [[UnsettlingGenderReveal reveals herself to be a woman]] in person, Cherry flees and regrets liking her, not before discovering her mother had a change of heart and bought a poster of the celebrity.]]
17	* GirlishPigtails: Her main hairstyle features two small pigtails, which especially standout after the removal of her headband and braided noodle hair in 2003.
18	* LateForSchool: One of her most troubling habits is her recurring late arrivals to school, often due to [[NotAMorningPerson staying in bed late]].
19	* LiteralMinded: Often literally takes abstract ideas. For instance, she mistook Wang Shuai's argument to keep the classroom clean like a five-star hotel as deserving of a vacuum against his method of wiping.
20	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Lampshaded in a tenth anniversary feature in the January 2010 issue, where she riddles the reader her age.
21	-->'''Cherry:''' Ten years ago, I was nine-year-old. Now everyone, guess how old I am. Hahaha, the answer is - 10 years old!
22	* PluckyGirl: In the ''Little Cherry House Elf'' story, she is a very determined and heroic girl who doesn't slouch on saving her friends or realizing how dangerous her foes have been. It's quite a departure from the IdiotHero version of Cherry in the ''Eight Immortals'' story.
23	* ReallyFondOfSleeping: Her habits of sleeping in class and sleeping late in bed have been annoyances to her class and mother.
24	* SeriesMascot: To both the ''Little Cherry'' franchise and its parent company, which is partly named after her and highlights her likeness in its logo.
25	* SpoiledBrat:
26	** One old strip has a store vendor asking Cherry's dad how he had discovered his shop. He answers it's through his daughter's tears.
27	** It was adapted into a scene in Season 1 episode 3 with the parents swapped, a background of Cherry having recently joined an astronomy club and begging for a telescope, and her full display of blubberry when her mother refused because she's neglecting her homework.
28	* YoungEntrepreneur: She and other classmates try to generate wealth by raising a chicken like Yingnan's father in Season 2 episode 1, only realizing its ideally a much-complicated ordeal, not to mention messy when all means of production are inside her home.
29	[[/folder]]
30	[[folder:Lazy (Da Lan 大懒)]]
31	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dalan_tv.png]]
32	The gluttonous boy who is fascinated with all sorts of food. He is one of Cherry's closest friends.
33	* BerserkButton: In episode 15, during his bathroom break from Tie Nan Hua's birthday party, Cherry gives away Lazy's piece of cake to appease a wandering toddler. Upon returning, Lazy is infuriated with his cake lost to the point he demands a review of the cake from Cherry. Ultimately, Tie Nan Hua returns the dish he had gifted her.
34	* BigEater: Has no plans to end his hobby of eating excess food. He consumes three servings of fried rice noodles at the restaurant in episode 25.
35	* TheChewToy: He sometimes gets into physical harm for laughs. In the ''Little Cherry House Elf'' story, he pursuits a squirrel who had attacked him, then encounters a [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant one]] who throws him wide into a bush.
36	* ThePigPen: The one who is most likely to [[{{Gasshole}} fart]] in the cast. He also demonstrates a bad breath and wins a breath competition with Xiaonan by abstaining from brushing his teeth for ten days in one strip.
37	[[/folder]]
38	[[folder:Xiaoxue (小雪)]]
39	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoxue_tv.png]]
40	->'''Voiced by:''' Zu Qing (TV series)
41	Cherry's best friend.
42	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her hair was longer in the older comics, and sometimes in the form of GirlishPigtails.
43	* NiceGirl: Has a positive attitude and is pretty calm and respectful to her friends.
44	[[/folder]]
45	[[folder:Tie Nan Hua (铁南花)]]
46	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tienanhua_tv.png]]
47	->'''Voiced by:''' Lu Shuang (TV series)
48	A fashion obsessed and self-centered girl.
49	* BirthdayEpisode: Episode 15 is about her eleventh birthday, which is celebrated in a park.
50	* EatingPetFood: In season 2 episode 19, when spying for Cherry's abnormal behavior inside a market, Tie Nan Hua finds herself getting too close to her friend and retreats to a food sample table to try a free treat. It wasn't until after consuming it when she was told it's a dog treat.
51	* GirlishPigtails: She has two of these to reflect her narcissistic and youthful character.
52	* LovableAlphaBitch: She has a selfish ego driven by her belief she will become famous in the future. She does, however, care for Cherry when the latter conspicuously spends less time with her friends in season 2 episode 19.
53	* RiseOfZitboy: In season 2 episode 2, Cherry, who is trying to be a nurse, applies paint to a zit on Tie Nan Hua's face. Because the latter is allergic to the paint, it [[FromBadToWorse exponentially plagues her face with more zits]].
54	[[/folder]]
55	[[folder:Xiaonan (小南)]]
56	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaonan_tv.png]]
57	The money-crazy son of the principal. He staffs a pumpkin-roof shop outside of the school.
58	* ConMan: In season 2 episode 2, he sells a book to Cherry and Erdou claiming it helps the reader find their future career with a 99 percent accuracy. The latter two fail miserably as a nurse and program host respectively and [[spoiler:[[BattleDiscretionShot attack Xiaonan offscreen]] in a shed]].
59	* {{Main/Greed}}: The hallmark characterization of Xiaonan, he is money obsessed and enjoys finding ways to make some through every imaginable path.
60	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He enjoys charging items to people who thought they're free. But in episode 6, while recovering from an offscreen dog attack, he allows his friends to eat his fruits without strings attached since they showed and care for him.
61	* MotorMouth: In episode 13, he talks rapidly as he dreams of merchandise ideas in response to Little Cherry and Xiaoxue agreeing to pitch in his shop.
62	* YoungEntrepreneur: Runs a shop with a variety of items at a young age.
63	[[/folder]]
64	[[folder:Erdou (二豆)]]
65	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erdou_tv.png]]
66	The computer geek. He studies hard but couldn't become the top student.
67	* BlindMistake:
68	** In one strip, Cherry suggests that he wears glasses to treat his myopia. Erdou, who thinks they'll make him unattractive, mistakes Lazy as a pig and offers him flowers to eat and [[TheChewToy ends up being slammed by him]].
69	** Another old comic strip has him getting harmed by an aggressive bulldog he mistook as a kitten, this time while he's wearing glasses (likely from his heavy myopia.
70	* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Wears them (sometimes with spirals) in many comic strips. They're omitted in the TV series until he wears them again in ''Little Fireman'' (and the intro for ''Humorous Collection'').
71	[[/folder]]
72	[[folder:Pi Da Gua (皮大瓜)]]
73	[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pidagua_tv.png]]
74	->'''Voiced by:''' Liu Hongyun
75	A timid boy who is seated next with Cherry. He wishes to become a veterinarian. He has a very young brother.
76	* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: In season 2 episode 21, he wails when Cherry and the gang couldn't figure out how to propel her inflatable house back to the shore. Xiaoxue tells him that the girls should cry first. As he yields her to cry, she reveals that [[JerkassBall she won't cry at all]].
77	[[/folder]]
78	[[folder:Wang Shuai (王帅)]]
79	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wangshuai_tv.png]]
80	->'''Voiced by:''' Zu Qing
81	A neighbor of Cherry, he is extremely devoted to learning and being a student leader.
82	* BornUnlucky: He sometimes find himself being too beneficial to other students at the cost of his comfort, aside from other cases of bad luck. In season 2 episode 16, when his friends choose him to stay still to monitor a cockroach because he believes that cycling the monitors will scare away the insect, he considers himself unlucky again.
83	* ClassRepresentative: While the students take turns to become a class monitor, he's often depicted to have the role, which includes monitoring attendance.
84	* MistakenForThief: In season 2 episode 3, a grocery thief outruns Wang, who is hauling a heavy load of vegetables to Cherry's home. Shortly afterwards, the police confiscate the vegetables from Wang, who fails to convince them he's not the suspect.
85	* ShirtlessScene: In season 2 episode 15, he makes an agreement with Cherry to run shirtless on the school track should she beat him on training Lazy to run. Once Cherry prevails, Wang Shuai removes his shirt and reveals his BodyPaint before dashing. However, the rain shows up and washes away his body paint, to his misery.
86	* TeachersPet: He is often liked by the teacher for being an accomplished student, but his support for rules have not garnered him much favor from his classmates, especially Cherry. He is usually inside Cherry's "inner circle" of friends, however.
87	[[/folder]]
88	[[folder:Xiaoli (小丽)]]
89	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoli_tv.png]]
90	->'''Voiced by:''' Jiang Sha (TV series)
91	The introvert daughter of divorced parents, she desires to become mayor.
92	* DeadpanSnarker: One of the snarkiest in the cast. In one comic strip, she reasons to Cherry that teacher Xiao Yang has a straight face because her last boyfriend was an alien who returned to his planet.
93	* MissingMom: Her character description in the 2002 ''Happy Elf Little Cherry'' comics mentions her mother having moved to Japan, and at least two strips hinted it occurred before her birth, when she tells Cherry [[BlatantLies her supposed origin from hatching out of an egg discovered by her father]].
94	* PerpetualFrowner: Especially in the TV show, where her frequent gloomy looks stand out from the rest of the class.
95	* SecretDiary: She wrote an alien abduction story in her diary for a homework assignment in one episode.[[note]]The comic strip also showed she wrote a story about being transported to Hawaii by a tornado.[[/note]] [[BerserkButton Peeking into it]] gives a pretty unwelcoming reaction from her.
96	* {{Troll}}: In season 2 episode 13, she tells Lazy that the new lamp needs to be plugged into the nostrils of smart people. Lazy falls for this lie and delays the lamp's setup, while Xiaoli laughs while being distanced from the other students.
97	[[/folder]]
98	[[folder:Yingnan (英男)]]
99	[[/folder]]
100	[[folder:Kexin (可心)]]
101	A beautiful and intelligent student.
102	[[/folder]]
103	[[folder:Dayu (大禹)]]
104	A transfer student introduced in season 2.
105	* NewTransferStudent: Makes his classroom debut in season 2 episode 10. Cherry and friends, however, are annoyed when they realize he's the sweeper that repeatedly approached them the night before, when he was concerned with the environmental impact from their fireworks.
106	[[/folder]]
107	[[folder:Pidai (皮带)]]
108	[[/folder]]
109	[[folder:Juanjuan (娟娟)]]
110	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juanjuan_comics.png]]
111	Cherry's kindergartener cousin and Guoguo's nemesis who appears in some older comics.
112	* GirlishPigtails: As a highly immature little girl, she sports long braided pigtails.
113	* FieryRedhead: She is a restless child with red hair.
114	[[/folder]]
115	!!The Adults
116	[[folder:Little Cherry's Mom]]
117	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoyingtaomama_tv.png]]
118	->'''Voiced by:''' Lu Shuang (TV series)
119	Cherry's mother, who looks to the best of her daughter but criticizes her blunders.
120	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her hair was black in some older comics, and it was short in the early-mid 2000s, encompassing the flash shorts.
121	* {{Housewife}}: She maintains her household and performs chores such as sweeping and doing the laundry.
122	[[/folder]]
123	[[folder:Little Cherry's Dad]]
124	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoyingtaopapa_tv.png]]
125	->'''Voiced by:''' Zhang Lin (TV series)
126	Cherry's easy-going father.
127	* TheAlcoholic: Shown to be carelessly drinking booze. Iin episode 25, he had formally agreed with his family to abstain from alcohol a week ago and returns to that habit.
128	* NeverWinTheLottery:
129	** Going way back in the comics, he can be described as thinking of nothing but winning the lottery jackpot. He once asked a fortune teller for the winning numbers, and he missed out one particular drawing that uses his birthdate[[note]]November 3, 1965 (for a 2001 version of the character)[[/note]].
130	** In episode 25, he had bought lottery tickets in hopes of winning the jackpot. [[spoiler:While he believed to have won according to the TV announcement, in the line, he learns he's only entitled to receive two bottles of soap rather than the ultimate prize and has to share the disappointing news with his wife, who's already looking forward to moving into a fancy home.]]
131	[[/folder]]
132	[[folder:Teacher Xiao Yang (小杨老师)]]
133	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xiaoyang_comics.png]]
134	A young 3rd grade teacher who has trouble educating her reckless students. She was the main teacher during the comic strip's first decade. She apparently stopped appearing in new stories not long after the TV series' premiere.
135	* BondageIsBad: In one of the flash shorts (and comics), since watching the movie ''Film/MySassyGirl'', she decides to dress in S&M gear and wield a whip so she can overcome her students' disobedience in an evil manner.
136	* ChuckingChalk: Xiao Yang furiously throws chalk pieces at her sleeping students. In one strip, Lazy remarks that she's becoming more accurate and concludes with her idea to make extra money throwing knives for the circus.
137	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The very early comics depict her as having brown hair and long ears.
138	* {{Fangirl}}: Her home is adorned with posters of the Taiwanese boy band F4 in one strip.
139	* InconsistentColoring: During the PoweredArmor sequences in the ''Eight Immortal'' story, her hair becomes bright red like Ningsha's for no reason.
140	* TeamMom: In the ''Eight Immortals'' story, she is the only grownup in the titular group (which is otherwise made up of her students) and is quite protective to them during their perilous journey.
141	* WouldHurtAChild: One strip has Xiao Yang going to strike a laughing Little Cherry with a chair after the latter saw her failing grade. Fortunately, Lazy pulls their teacher back.
142	[[/folder]]
143	[[folder:Teacher Ma Qiang]]
144	A middle-aged teacher who eventually replaced Xiao Yang as the main teacher in the franchise.
145	[[/folder]]
146	[[folder:Principal Pumpkin (南瓜校长)]]
147	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xytprincipal_tv.png]]
148	The principal of the school and Xiaonan's father.
149	* FaceDoodling: In one of the flash shorts, his face was drawn on by delinquent students during his nap.
150	[[/folder]]
151	[[folder:Director Hao]]
152	[[quoteright:348:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/directorhao_tv.png]]
153	A bossy school admin.
154	* AchillesHeel: In Pi Tsai's fantasy story in a 2005 volume, while battling against a dragon version of Hao along with a demonic Principal, he distracts Hao by throwing a bottle of SK II towards the principal. They fight each other, and Hao becomes defeated while the Principal is severely weakened.
155	[[/folder]]
156	[[folder:Little Cherry's Grandpa]]
157	Cherry's seldom appearing caring grandfather.
158	* ADayInTheLimelight: Being a minor character in the comic strip, he is a key character in the ''Little Cherry House Elf'' story where his granddaughter and her friends visit he and his wife's house in the cool highlands in the summer. He also leads a resistance against an archaeologist and his goons who want to purchase and destroy his house and the town because they pursuit a recently obtained sacred cauldron (where Yoyo is spawned from).
159	* CaptainErsatz: While most versions of Grandpa don't ring a bell, the TV version in the Season 2 finale has been closely lifted from his equivalent from ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan''.
160	[[/folder]]
161	!!Animals
162	[[folder:Ah Fu (阿福)]]
163	Little Cherry's pet white dog.
164	[[/folder]]
165	[[folder:Guoguo (果果)]]
166	Cherry's pet yellow parrot who appears in some older comics such as ''Happy Elf Little Cherry''.
167	* FunnyAnimal: An anthropomorphic bird who can talk to humans, wear clothes, explore and create websites, and even speaks some English.
168	[[/folder]]
169	!!Magical/Fantasy
170	[[folder:Pupu (卜卜)]]
171	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pupu_tv.png]]
172	A pink jellyfish fairy that made its TV debut in season 2. It met Cherry at an aquarium before joining her as her pet.
173	* BigShadowLittleCreature: Lazy and Tie Nan Hua first saw a large projected shadow of Pupu on Cherry's window, believing that their friend has befriended a frightening monster.
174	* ElectricJellyfish: It zaps Lazy and Tie Nan Hua twice in season 2 episode 19. First, in self-defense when they meet, and second, when both kids quarrel at each other for causing pollution.
175	* InconsistentColoring: It is colored green in many comics, even if it's depicted pink in the next panel.
176	[[/folder]]
177	[[folder:Yoyo the House Elf (尤尤)]]
178	[[/folder]]
179	[[folder:Ningsha (宁莎)]]
180	[[quoteright:303:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ningsha_comics.png]]
181	A young princess from an underwater kingdom who was sent away in an egg that Cherry discovers in the ''Eight Immortals'' story. She is accompanied by her rabbit-like pet fairy Gugu (咕咕).
182	* AdvertisedExtra: Gugu frequently appeared on overlays in the comic volumes and the official website during the mid-2000s, but it only showed up in the ''Eight Immortals'' story.
183	* FieryRedhead: Makes emotional outbursts when her allies become incompetent, like her angriness when Cherry and friends play in the snow rather than continuing their quest to help her.
184	* MosesInTheBulrushes: She was sent away inside a big egg by her mother due to a war in their underwater kingdom. Little Cherry finds the egg on a beach in Hainan and could find no use of it until it finally hatches in her room, and she meets Ningsha there.
185	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Gugu is an innocent and happy looking creature with a simplistic look.
186	* {{Weredragon}}: As with other "human" members of her kingdom, she can transform into a dragon. She generously gives her allies a ride from their home to the beach where her egg was picked up.
187	* YearInsideHourOutside: In the ending of the ''Eight Immortals'' story, [[spoiler:she aged fifteen more years because she had spent fifteen days in the human world. Once the main gang visits the underwater kingdom for the first time, she is already a grownup who is now the ruler of the kingdom.]]

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